Ref. Ares(2021)1986193 - 19/03/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate E - Citizens, Health, Migration & Security Union
SG.E4 – Health, Education & culture
Brussels
SG.E.4/NP
Sergio Pérez Sangiao
Madrid, España
Calle de embajadores 308, 5º B
Código postal 28045
By email to: ask+request-8942-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
LA VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL LE LLEGARÁ MÁS ADELANTE
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/0304
Dear Mr Pérez Sangiao,
I refer to your e-mail of 18 January 2021, registered on the same day under the above-
mentioned reference number, in which you request access to “all correspondence
(including reports, official letters, emails, databases, attached documents, minutes and
meeting memoranda, as well as any other type of public document not mentioned in the
previous list) sent or received by the General Secretariat or the Presidency of the
European Commission, and specifically by President Ursula Von der Leyen and her
team, from January 1, 2020 to the present on the covid-19 pandemic and issues related to
it with the following regional governments in Spain:
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Government of Catalonia, known as the Generalitat of Catalonia [Especially
with the presidents Quim Torra and later Pere Aragonés and his teams].
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Government of Andalusia, known as Junta de Andalucía [Especially with
President Juanma Moreno and his team].
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Government of Aragon, known as the Diputación General de Aragón [Especially
with President Javier Lambán and his team].
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Government of Asturias, known as the Principality of Asturias [Especially with
President Adrián Barbón and his team].
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Government of the Balearic Islands [Especially with President Francina
Armengol and her team].
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: BERL 06/235Tel. direct line +32 229-62033
Nicolas.Pradalié@ec.europa.eu
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Government of the Canary Islands [Especially with President Ángel Víctor
Torres and his team].”
You also asked that “both the communications from the Spanish regional governments
and the responses to these letters sent by Von der Leyen or any other member of her team
be included. In the event that some of the letters have not been answered to by the
Commission you request that it is also indicated to you.”
In response to your request (GESTDEM 2021/0304), I am attaching a copy of the
requested document:
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Joint letter including from the President of the Government of the Balearic Islands,
Mr Francina Armengol I Socias and from the Vice-President and acting President
of the Government of Catalonia, Mr Pere Aragonès I Garcia (4 December 2020);
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Letter of the President von der Leyen to the Vice-President and acting President of
the Government of Catalonia, Mr Pere Aragonès I Garcia (21 December 2020);
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Letter of Commissioner Ferreira to the Representative of the Government of
Catalonia to the EU, Ms Mertixell Serret Aleu (27 January 2021).
I trust that this responds fully to your request.
Yours sincerely,
Cosmin DOBRAN
Enclosures: as above
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Electronically signed on 17/03/2021 17:52 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482